Charles Joseph ESTERLY

(1888-1940)

ESTERLY, Charles Joseph, a
Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Reading, Pa., February 8,
1888; attended the public schools; employed with an electric
company until 1916 and later in the sales department of a knitting
mill; also engaged in the breeding of Ayrshire cattle and Berkshire
hogs; served as president and director of a water company, and as a
director of a knitting mill and bottle-stopper company; member of
the board of school directors of Wyomissing, Pa., 1914-1920;
committeeman of Wyomissing Borough 1917-1921; delegate to the
Republican National Convention in 1920; member of the Republican
State committee 1922-1924; elected as a Republican to the
Sixty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1925-March 3, 1927); declined to be
a candidate for renomination in 1926; again elected to the
Seventy-first Congress (March 4, 1929-March 3, 1931); was not a
candidate for renomination in 1930; resumed former business
interests; died in Wernersville, Pa., September 3, 1940; interment
in Charles Evans Cemetery, Reading, Pa.

Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present